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Embrace Complexity: Practical Patterns for Distributed Systems (And How to Get There)

May 21, 2025 - Matt Kindy

Microservices! The promised land of independent deployments, team autonomy, and glorious scalability. You dove in headfirst, breaking up the monolith, feeling the wind of agility in your hair... unti...

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Designing Dev Tools with Cognitive Load in Mind

April 23, 2025 - Matt Kindy

As software systems grow more complex, the mental demands on developers intensify. A single development task might require understanding service boundaries, database schemas, API contracts, infrastru...

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The Hidden Costs of Just-In-Time Architecture

April 23, 2025 - Matt Kindy

The software industry has embraced "shift left" thinking across many domains. In security, we've moved from end-stage penetration testing to embedding security practices throughout the development li...

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From Code to Context: Feature Location for Modern Development

April 23, 2025 - Matt Kindy

Every software developer knows the frustration: you're tasked with fixing a bug or adding a feature, but first, you have to find the relevant code. In today's complex, distributed systems, this seemi...

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Beyond Code: How Modern Static Analysis Unlocks System Understanding

April 23, 2025 - Matt Kindy

As software systems grow increasingly complex, encompassing distributed architectures, dynamic languages, and complicated infrastructure services, the ability to comprehend their behavior becomes par...

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The Secret to Building Better Software: It's Not What You Optimize, But What You Understand

April 23, 2025 - Matt Kindy

The pursuit of optimization has become a seductive, yet often misleading path in software development. Engineering teams frequently fall into the trap of measuring and tweaking readily available metr...

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2024 in Review: Understanding Complex Systems at Scale

April 23, 2025 - Matt Kindy

Anyone who's worked on a non-trivial codebase knows the feeling: you open your editor to make what seems like a straightforward change, only to find yourself an hour later deep in a maze of interconn...

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